@article{article_1617154, title={THE RETURN OF “THE ABJECT” IN KOSMOS AND THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER}, journal={Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={12}, pages={576–591}, year={2025}, DOI={10.69878/deuefad.1617154}, author={Gündoğdu, Ayşegül}, keywords={abject, Kosmos, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, yabancı, kültür, kimlik, Julia Kristeva}, abstract={Julia Kristeva in Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, defines the “abject” as that which both threatens identity and paradoxically serves to preserve it. This paradoxical condition is not an object or subject that language can define. Ironically, it is at the very center of the formation of identity. What Kristeva calls the “not-I or not-other” threatens the integrity and boundary of identity due to its ambiguous and inexplicable nature. Since the abject does not belong to the defined and determined sphere of subjectivity, it disrupts the orders, rules and boundaries through which individuals and/or societies try to keep their borders intact against this destructive power. Therefore, identity and the boundaries that define identity result from processes in which the not-I and the not-other are tried to be expelled from these boundaries. Accordingly, this study aims to discuss the emergence of this “thing (abject)” that is not-self and not-other in two different narratives, in Reha Erdem’s (2009) Kosmos and Yorgos Lanthimos’ (2017) The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and to discuss how identities and cultures that are thought to be perfectly constructed are actually intertwined with the “thing” that is trying to be expelled, and how this threat is incorporated into their lives by people themselves.}, number={2}, publisher={Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi}